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[Catalina Park]

I've been given this mystery to solve and I need help. I thought I would throw it open to the experts.

[Ardmore]

That's a Falcon, developed and built in New Zealand in the late fifties.

[Catalina Park]

Great, I thought it was NZ but I wasn't sure of the car.

[Lee Nicolle]

But did it fall over? Very close. Great action pic.

[john medley]

Is the Falcon about to fly?

[Ray Bell]

Standard 10 suspension?

It's not the ubiquitous BMC on the rear, anyway. And I don't think it's Herald.

[Catalina Park]

English Ford based.

[Belmondo]

Is it a relative of this?

 

https://racecarsdire...-ii-works-racer

[Ray Bell]

Highly unlikely, I'd say...

It does have BMC axles, by the way.

n The Roaring Season there's a thread about NZ-built cars. On the fourth page comes this note about the Falcon:

I know of this car and strongly suspect that it is a copy of the Falcon made in Napier by Peter Pallandine while he was living in New Zealand. Two lots of moulds and about three cars were made. One set of moulds was taken back to the UK by Peter where he made couple of thousand more cars and the other was badly damaged in a factory fire.

http://www.theroarin...alcon +Gisborne

[GTMRacer]

Falcon Caribbean to be precise. I didn't know they were made in NZ as well.

Based on the Ford Pop chassis generally, but you could put it on anything if so inclined

 

http://www.fordspeci....uk/falcon.html

Edited by GTMRacer, 06 June 2019 - 12:22.

[Dipster]

Falcon Caribbean to be precise. I didn't know they were made in NZ as well.

Based on the Ford Pop chassis generally, but you could put it on anything if so inclined

 

http://www.fordspeci....uk/falcon.html

But I am sure that the car in the photo is certainly Ford pop based. The poor road-holding and axle stubs give that away!

[plannerpower]

It's somewhat remarkable that the car in the photo and the car in the advert have the same registration number.

[Lee Nicolle]

The Carribean Mk3 and 4 are nice looking cars, the 'Competition' not ugly. But the base of the car, Ford 8 &10 are the let down. Explaining the lead pic to the thread.

For someone a smart fabricator could have made their own chassis and then used more modern  mechanicals, A 1500 pushrod and Cortina/ 105Anglia  transmission parts with fabricated front suspension ah la a Clubman  would have made an excellent quick little car.

With a more refined look than a clubbie.

[Wirra]

There's yet another mystery car image doing the round.  Even Terry doesn't known what is.

 

Photo is from the 60s and the sign in the background has the wording 'Long and Rowsell' - they had a workshop at Silverwater, Sydney.

 

 

There is a touch of 'Proctor' about the wheel arches but rest is typical of the era. 

[Stephen W]

Is it a relative of this?

 

https://racecarsdire...-ii-works-racer

 

Bodyshell by Falcon fitted to an Elva

[Ray Bell]

Originally posted by Lee Nicolle
.....a smart fabricator could have made their own chassis and then used more modern  mechanicals, A 1500 pushrod and Cortina/ 105Anglia  transmission parts with fabricated front suspension ah la a Clubman  would have made an excellent quick little car.
With a more refined look than a clubbie.

These cars were from the late fifties, Lee...

Before 105E Anglias were commonplace and Cortinas were even thought of. But there were other cars with good mechanicals, leaving the side-valve lumps and live front axles behind.

[bradbury west]

Do not forget that a Falcon body was used on a works Sprite in 1960.
Roger Lund